Ammanati

American  

[ah-muh-nah-tee, ahm-mah-nah-tee] / ˌɑ məˈnɑ ti, ˌɑm mɑˈnɑ ti /

noun

1. Bartolommeo 1511–92, Italian architect and sculptor.

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Example Sentences

The unfinished, half-ruinous palace, designed in 1444 by Brunellesco, was a century later sold by the Pitti, quite ruined now, to Eleonora, the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo, and was finished by Ammanati.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

The present building, however, was raised in the pontificate of Gregory XIII. by the Florentine architect Ammanati, the first stone having been laid in 1582.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

The most striking object in the most remarkable part of Florence is the colossal marble Neptune in the Fountain of the Signoria, by Ammanati, dating from 1575. 

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey

The Hall, namely, that part which is rectangular, without counting the works of Bandinelli and Ammanati, is ninety braccia in length and thirty-eight braccia in breadth.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by De Vere, Gaston du C.

During these same years Michelangelo carried on a correspondence with Ammanati and Vasari about the completion of the Laurentian Library.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington